Re: Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

2007-12-14 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Dec 13, 2007 6:25 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hi, I have cygwin installed as a server on my desktop. I can log into it from my linux box using ssh, but I cannot open displays on the linux box. By that I mean that if I login in using

Re: Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

2007-12-14 Thread Holger Krull
Mirko Vukovic schrieb: - I have ran ssh-host-config and set CYGWIN=ntsec server. I said yes to privilege separation, and I have an sshd user in /etc/passwd - I have set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in .bash_profile ^^ Don't do this. Really

Re: Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

2007-12-14 Thread xerces8
Maybe it will help, if you know what the DISPLAY variable is used for. It is like this: when you start a program (like gnuplot), it will okk at the DISPLAY variable and use its value as the address of the X11 display to use. So in your case, it will read localhost:0.0 and it will connect and

Re: Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

2007-12-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hi, I have cygwin installed as a server on my desktop. I can log into it from my linux box using ssh, but I cannot open displays on the linux box. By that I mean that if I login in using ssh, and invoke a command that should open a window (like gnuplot), it opens the plot